Day 143- The Map Room

'M' is what I am calling the 'Map Room'. Remember the film 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'? Of course you do! Indiana Jones is in that tomb in Egypt with all the snakes when he figures out how to open that secret chamber by holding up that septre so when the Sun comes up the sunlight hits it to activate that beam of light onto the keyhole. Anyway it went something like that. So back to our walkthrough here. People enter the doorway into 'M' which then closes behind them trapping them in that room. Now we have something a little special planned this year. We have a video projector with 3D video of snakes or spiders which will be projected somewhere in that room while folks are trapped in there. At the same time the wall with the vertical hatch marks will start moving inward toward the guests, the 'crush wall'. We will use our corpse in that room and have some snakes appear to come out of the mouth! And while all this is happening the guests will be getting blasted by the helpers in the area labelled 'AC' for Air Cannon! We will have ports which are designated by the blue hatched lines where they can target the guests. We are going to try this little pneumatic accessory this year as well. We'll see how that goes.
So a lot of scare is going into this one room and really after that, the guests are let out into the area marked 'V' which will have a ramp going out to the vortex tunnel. Maybe we'll have one final actor in that area as they go up the ramp. We can also have the cannon operators work that area as well, which is shown in the diagram.

Also notice the area 'C'. This is where the control room is located this year. This will enable me to operate the crush wall and hopefully at least open the elevator doors (That will be quite a trick!)

So that's the haunt this year! To recap: entrance to the right into the Haunted Mansion hallway, turn left to the elevator, go down the elevator to the crypt level, come out and get the ghost warning from the moving ghost in zone 4, go left into the map room and finally out to the vortex. Again, not as many spaces, but each one will be a LOT more involved with much more attention to detail!